It’s been a gloriously sunny week here in the UK and I want to celebrate Friday with a bang and show you a really special home that I found on Dutch VT Wonen.

Located in Melbourne this home used to be an old mattress factory and appropriately the owner has filled it with lots of vintage pieces and bric-a-brac collected over the past 20 years.

She admits: ‘My passion for beautiful, used stuff is still growing by the day. I just love the patina of age, the worn character of bygone memories, stories and secrets.’

It’s a very quirky home and I like that the owner has painted everything white, like a canvas, to make her beautiful vintage finds stand out. It feels almost like a little museum or antiques shop and I love how she’s given the rusty locker a new use as a kitchen cabinet.

Everything is a bit raw and rough but very deliberate. The armchairs aren’t covered in luxurious fabric, there are no table cloths and the yellow iron ladder leads to… errr, nowhere actually. How very Beuys!

Grouping old finds together helps to give the interior and eye a focal point and I like the collection of oil paintings as a feature wall, the group of sports balls, mixed with some taxidermy and the pile of old books and postcards with a bust on top.

It’s impressive how the owner managed to keep the place feeling modern with all the antiques around and I think it’s partly due to the warm colour palette of mainly browns and greys as well as the white backdrop and the industrial dimensions of the building.

I’d love to have a good old snoop around here… what about you?

 
VIA | VT Wonen
PHOTOGRAPHY | Mikkel Yang
 
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